..Our work contributes to the growing body of literature that suggests salamanders and newts are particularly vulnerable to salt, and that the emerging pollutant, MgCl(2) is comparable in its effects to the more traditionally-used NaCl...

Developmental and evolutionary history affect survival in stressful environments

Gareth R HopkinsDepartment of Biology and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 9:e95174. 2014

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Sublethal contaminant exposure alters behavior in a common insect: important implications for trophic transfer

..This study also revealed that female crickets appeared to be less affected by malathion than their male conspecifics, indicating a potential sex-bias in both susceptibility and possible predator attack...